For a example, I fed a chapter from my current WIP into Christopher Park's Manuscript Analyzer and discovered that out of 3,757 total words I had 1,107 distinct words, 32 possible adverbs, 139 frequent offenders (words that are overused and/or need to be weeded out.) I really like this widget; it gives me lists I can sort and filter as needed.
I also ran it through this Test Document Readability online widget and found out among other things that the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading via Gunning Fog index is: 9.58 (basically, a tenth grader.)
The fun generators got into kind of an argument over my writing, though. The Genderanalyzer says my blog is gender-neutral (which makes me ridiculously proud) but that I'm probably a woman:
On the other hand, when analyzing a chapter from the WIP The Gender Genie is convinced I'm a guy:
I admit, I'm female. At least 52% of me is. All those rumors about me being male/female/alien are too much fun to completely dispell.
Finally, I tried running PBW through the SEO Analysis Tool (scroll down on page), and among a lot of neat info discovered this:
Title Tag
Title: Paperback Writer
The title tag contains 16 characters which is perfect.
The title tag relevancy to the page content is 100% which is perfect.
I keep telling people PBW is perfect, but they never listen . . . .
The results Christoper M Park's Analyzer gave me for the first chapter of my wip is:
ReplyDelete4,145 total words,
1,128 distinct words,
56 possible adverbs,
163 frequent offenders
Number of years of formal education needed to understand text according to Test Document Readability: 8.47.
These were fun to look at. I especially like the "list of sentences" they provide for me to consider rewriting. That may come in handy. Though, I must wonder how seriously I should take those suggestions.
I'm sure your husband appreciates the fact that you're probably a woman. At least the 52% of you that matters. He could watch a game and have a beer with the other 48%.
ReplyDeleteGender Analyzer gave me 51% male.
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The Gender Genie gave me
Female Score: 631
Male Score: 730
wrong.
My title tag length and relevancy were "perfect" - though that response on relevancy has me wondering how they figure that.
Genderanalyzer has got me at 68% woman. I wonder what my husband thinks of the other 32%. LOL
ReplyDeleteAnd according to the SEO analyzer, my blog is perfect, too. Yay me. =o)
That Manuscript Analyzer looks like an awesome tool. Thanks, Lynn. I'll definitely be messing around with that for a while.
Oh, to be thought perfect!
ReplyDeleteI'll need to check these out this week.
PBW is perfect. At least 52%. *ggg*
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean the other 48% is Kyndred? It's what I always suspected.
ReplyDeleteMy blog came in at 69% female.
ReplyDeleteand a sizeable cunk of my WIp
Female Score: 27953
Male Score: 26315
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Now I wonder why i have to shave so often.
Just dropping by to say.... Look at what I FINALLY got today! I can't wait to start it!
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Perfect is good! I'm afraid of what it might tell me, so I think I'll just stick with living vicariously through you and the other commenters here. ;)
ReplyDeleteHave you ever tried http://iwl.me? It's a site that analyzes who you write like. (I got Stephen King, btw. Oh joy!)
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